Hi Bush BaptistThank you for your reply, yes a single is way too small...

Was thinking of a Queen Double High Coleman from Makro, just wanted to know if people out there can advise me whether these "double high" blow up mattresses are worth it, or to stick with the single high ones...

Van - look very carefully at the quality of the blow up matress at the retailer you mention .In my experience the only ones which seem to last are the canvass types which are available from specialist camping outlets .

Remember the stretchers take up quite a lot of space when transporting .

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Also consider the power of the pump. I bought a double mattress for comfort (a Bushbaby canvas one from Checkers!) but could not get it firm enough with my pump. A friend then used his car tyre pump with adapter and then it was great. Seems the little pumps cannot generate enough power to overcome the pressure when the mattress is fairly well blown up.

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Have you read the entrance permit? Do you KNOW the Conditions of Entry?

Seems the little pumps cannot generate enough power to overcome the pressure when the mattress is fairly well blown up.

I have a hand "car tyre" type of pump , much more efficient than the cheaper electric pumps and contributes to a quieter campsite ...

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Hi VAN from PTA,

Single high, single high, single high..... !

See the story goes like this. We have a proper camping bed with a single high mattress. So this clever okie I gave birth to tells us to try his bed cause it's bigger and better. Thinking that he must have taken after me, I convinced SO to leave our bed behind and try the bigger and better because it takes up less space in the car. Little did I know that bigger and better had a little hole in it which came to it's full right around midnight.

A puncture is bound to happen at some stage but on a single high you only sink so far before you hit the floor. If bigger and better decides to commit suicide in the middle of the night you also sink to the floor just that there is enough of the thing left to completely engulf you. Just trying to get to get off the thing is like fighting your way out of a pile of marshmallows.

The worst two nights I've even spent in Marakele, let me tell you! SO ended up sleeping on the floor with the duvet and all the pillows and I was left to fight the "thing".

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Advice noted and agreed, I bought myself the sinlge high queen size coleman a couple of days ago, will be testing it in Kruger at Satara tomorrow night, will have a review once im back and let you know if it survived!

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